'With everything we buy, we need to ask ourselves what type of person we are becoming when we buy it.' ? Jim Wallace

Written by

the Rev. Clay Stauffer

Many are guilty of confusing the two concepts. There was an excellent article in January's issue of The Atlantic written by Emily Smith. The title was "There's More to Life Than Being Happy." She refers to Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl's 1946 book, "Man's Search for Meaning," and she talks about the basic difference between "meaning" and "happiness."

She says, quoting a recent psychological study: "Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life in which things go well, needs and ...